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Assuming you believe that life has any purpose, what would it be? (Check all that apply, in your opinion.)
to Serve God and Serve Others.
to Serve God and Serve Others.
Assuming you believe that life has any purpose, what would it be? (Check all that apply, in your opinion.)
How does one know that one is serving the "correct" God, though?
There isn't a "correct God", there is only "God" and while all of us fail to serve Him "correctly" some of us serve Him "less correctly" than others.
Unfortunately, the world is full of people who say things like "You can't serve God even close to 'correctly' unless you follow [the Baptist Church/the Catholic Church/Judaism/Islam/whatever]." I know of no solution to this age-old dilemma.
Assuming you believe that life has any purpose, what would it be? (Check all that apply, in your opinion.)
There isn't a "correct God", there is only "God" and while all of us fail to serve Him "correctly" some of us serve Him "less correctly" than others.
I do not think 10 options can cover all the meaningful purposes that one may generate for their lives.
You are providing an overly-simplistic (and generally false) trope. There are plenty of people who do say things like that (witness: Islamic State), but the world is not "full" of them.
However many there are, it doesn't affect the fact that the dilemma still exists.
There is no inherent purpose in life, everyone decides what purpose they wish to pursue.
If that's true, it would seem reasonable that most people would be happy with their choice of purpose, or they'd simply choose another. That being the case, does it follow that the ultimate purpose of this choice is for the individual to be happy?
Just some food for thought.
That's why the tenth option was "fill in the blank."